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+ | THE GORELETTER: | ||
+ | Michael Arnzen' | ||
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+ | +++Vol. 11.1 | August 2016+++ | ||
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+ | **Uncanny Reflections** | ||
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+ | ====NEW RELEASE==== | ||
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+ | FREAKCIDENTS: | ||
+ | Available in EBOOK and AUDIOBOOK for the first time! \\ | ||
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+ | Longtime readers probably have heard of Freakcidents (http:// | ||
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+ | $3.99 ebook from Amazon.com: | ||
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+ | $3.95 audiobook from Audible.com: | ||
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+ | You can learn more about the book and listen to three sample poems over on the Mastication Publications website. | ||
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+ | ====NEW PUBLICATIONS==== | ||
+ | and Other Arnzen News | ||
+ | (http:// | ||
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+ | The BIG news is that you can now stream/ | ||
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+ | Read about Audiovile: Expanded Digital Edition & Poedown Live featured elsewhere in this newsletter and uncover a discount code just for you. | ||
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+ | Many little things have been published here and there since last time...and more weirdness is always to come. Here are my faves: | ||
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+ | * My mock book proposal for a new adult coloring book, "Grow the F*ck Up," was published by McSweeney' | ||
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+ | * I'm one of the featured poets in the upcoming Horror Poetry Showcase Vol. III, from the Horror Writers Association . It should be out any day now. I was interviewed by Stephanie Wytovich about this, and you can read the featured poems on the HWA website. | ||
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+ | * I've had a batch of poems appear recently at The 5-2 Crime Poetry Weekly. What's cool about the 5-2 is that the poems appear in both text and audio recitation. Here's all my contributions, | ||
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+ | * You'll see a special return of Proverbs for Monsters from Dark Regions Press in the months to come! Can you believe it's the 10th anniversary of this book's publication soon? | ||
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+ | * "55 Ways I'd Prefer Not to Die" -- which is fifty-five microfictions, | ||
+ | https:// | ||
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+ | Here's one of them, to illustrate how strange this is: | ||
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+ | AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE #2: \\ | ||
+ | ROLLER COASTER \\ | ||
+ | When the roller coaster plunges, people always throw their arms up above them like they are making jazz hands in the face of oblivion, while everyone else clutches the guard bar. Not me. I choke the throat of the person in front of me and bottle up their scream to make a human air bag. | ||
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+ | ====Gorelets: | ||
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+ | CREEPER PEEPERS \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | Easter ended. \\ | ||
+ | The marshmallow pets \\ | ||
+ | were no longer marshy \\ | ||
+ | and not nearly mellow \\ | ||
+ | enough to sell. \\ | ||
+ | Thousands of little animal \\ | ||
+ | stiffs in plastic. \\ | ||
+ | I took the palette \\ | ||
+ | behind my outlet store \\ | ||
+ | and burned the whole stock \\ | ||
+ | in a funeral pyre \\ | ||
+ | of melting chicks and bunnies. \\ | ||
+ | Their eyes popped \\ | ||
+ | and the hundreds \\ | ||
+ | of bodies writhed, \\ | ||
+ | browning together \\ | ||
+ | into a gore of s' | ||
+ | for a moment looking like \\ | ||
+ | a many-headed beast \\ | ||
+ | made of larva and lava \\ | ||
+ | sparking into life \\ | ||
+ | in the angry bonfire. \\ | ||
+ | I forgot all about my peeps. \\ | ||
+ | Until the following Easter' | ||
+ | resurrection. \\ | ||
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+ | ====Meet Mike Arnzen==== | ||
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+ | DogCon 5 \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | Oct 1-2, 2016 | Broadkill Resort, DE \\ | ||
+ | Raw Doggers at the Beach \\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | AWP 17 \\ | ||
+ | https:// | ||
+ | Association of Writers & Writing Programs \\ | ||
+ | Feb 8-11, 2017 | Washington, DC \\ | ||
+ | Meet Seton Hill U at the Bookfair \\ | ||
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+ | StokerCon 2017 \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | April 27-30, 2017 | Long Beach, CA \\ | ||
+ | We All Float...on the Queen Mary! \\ | ||
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+ | Thanks to everyone who visited with me at WHC16 and StokerCon this past Spring! http:// | ||
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+ | Events sometimes pop up between newsletters so be sure to check the weblog once in a while for upcoming events | ||
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+ | ====FRIDGE FUN==== | ||
+ | The Fridge of the Damned (http:// | ||
+ | https:// | ||
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+ | Get yours and send me a snapshot! \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ====NOW ON BANDCAMP==== | ||
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+ | DOUBLE THE AUDIOVILE | ||
+ | https:// | ||
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+ | POEDOWN! | ||
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+ | Poetry Slam: Arnzen vs. Wytovich Live! \\ | ||
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+ | Originally released as a CD in 2007 by Raw Dog Screaming Press, Audiovile was an experiment in breaking the conventional horror audiobooks into something...unique. | ||
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+ | I invite you to give it another listen . The newly “Expanded Digital Edition” includes high quality digital versions of all the tracks, and then DOUBLES the size of the original release, featuring performances you won’t hear anywhere else -- from the "Plaid Flannel Mix" of Psycho Hunter to the banjo-and-bass jam session with Jason Jack Miller that created the foundation of Dreamachinery, | ||
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+ | Stream a sample on my new bandcamp page. When you purchase the full album, you get access to BONUS FEATURES: notably — an ebook companion, a photograph gallery and a secret bonus track. | ||
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+ | Bandcamp has a great feature where you can send digital music as gifts -- good idea! | ||
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+ | Also, while supplies last, you can purchase a signed copy of the original CD bundled with your order of the digital edition. Act quick! | ||
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+ | Read this great review of Audiovile at Gravediggers Local 16 http:// | ||
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+ | POEDOWN is both a poetry slam inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and a live audio performance captured shortly before the release of both Stephanie Wytovich' | ||
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+ | What makes this event special is not just the raw passion and combative energy of their reading (which is at times deeply hilarious and others truly disturbing) but also the way the event inaugurated a ritual that has continued over the past five years: whenever Arnzen and “Wyto” share the stage, they come ready to read a new horror piece on an agreed upon theme. Buy this album on bandcamp and you’ll not only get an exclusive companion ebook but also bonus tracks featuring an example of their recent “slam” on the topic of “scary clowns.” | ||
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+ | You get a cool companion ebook and also a copy of this flyer from the original slam event at DV8 as hidden bonus items when you pay for the album. | ||
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+ | You can see a few photos and hear samples, too, on the original blog post about the Poedown back in 2012. | ||
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+ | DISCOUNT CODE FOR SUBSCRIBERS: | ||
+ | 15% OFF anything at http:// | ||
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+ | ====INSTIGATION==== | ||
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+ | Kudos to writer Joe-la Dowdy, who over on The Petulant Muse weblog just published her 365th creative entry, marking a full year of dark flash fiction and devious poems -- all inspired by the prompts in my book, Instigation: | ||
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+ | Joe-la wins the first # | ||
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+ | *** | ||
+ | And here's a few new instigation prompts for you, based on Joe-la' | ||
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+ | ANNIVERSCARIES! \\ | ||
+ | + Pick a random commemorative day of the year from the convenient list at wikipedia (https:// | ||
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+ | + It's the Golden Wedding Anniversary for an undead married couple! | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | + Depict the deadly battle between competing clowns who show up at the same birthday party. | ||
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+ | + Craft the annual journal entries of a serial killer (perhaps from his prison cell) who marks the date of his first kill by writing about it every year. | ||
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+ | + Write a " | ||
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+ | + Imagine if there were a SECOND Halloween each year: Neo-Hallows. What would this new holiday celebrate and how? | ||
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+ | + Title for your next creative piece: | ||
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+ | More: \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ====As You Like It...==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you liked 100 Jolts | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | You'll like Nightmares and Geezenstacks | ||
+ | by Frederic Brown \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | If you liked Paratabloids | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | You'll like If the Tabloids are True What are You | ||
+ | by Matthea Harvey | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | If you liked The Gorelets Omnibus | ||
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+ | You'll like Underwater Fistfight | ||
+ | by Matt Betts \\ | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | If you liked Proverbs for Monsters | ||
+ | http:// | ||
+ | You'll like Madhouse | ||
+ | edited by Brad C. Hodson & Benjamin Kane Ethridge | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ====THANK YOU==== | ||
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+ | THANK YOU FOR READING THE GORELETTER! | ||
+ | This is the first issue of 2016 (yes, it's been 6 months since the last one), and I appreciate your continued subscription. The newsletter has been publishing since 2002 -- that's 14 years! | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | Or look into the book, The Gorelets Omnibus (get the hardcover, for sure), for key selections of the best horror poetry and fiction that has appeared in this Bram Stoker Award-winning missive. | ||
+ | http:// | ||
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+ | Michael Arnzen is now on Instagram @mikearnzen: | ||
+ | https:// | ||
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+ | ====PITHY MORBID THOUGHTS==== | ||
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+ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche, died 1900 \\ | ||
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+ | ====COLOPHON==== | ||
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+ | Read the back issues (http:// | ||
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+ | Copyright 2016, Michael A. Arnzen - All rights reserved | ||
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+ | You are reading a “plain text” version of The Goreletter. The newsletter is now designed with HTML in mind, so I recommend you review your subscription options and choose HTML if your email reader or browser will allow it. | ||
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+ | VIEW THE FANCY HTML VERSION OF THIS NEWSLETTER WITH ARTWORK AND MORE: \\ | ||
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